A Curriculum Approach to ‘Growing Your Own’ Teachers
Recruiting teachers can often be a case of growing your own and building for the future. It’s a long-term investment but can lead to effective recruitment from the community your school serves.
Prince Henry’s High School has developed a full specification for their ‘get into teaching’ curriculum course. Download it here.
This is a fully fledged curriculum outline, which schools are free to adopt or use as inspiration for their own careers education, advice, information and guidance curricula.
The course is one unit which is then split into 3 terms. The three terms consist of theoretical elements delivered by a professional mentor one lesson per fortnight. The student then has 2 weeks to put some of this theory into practice through practical experience with a class mentor.
The subject mentor will then monitor progression throughout the year providing opportunities for the student to take greater responsibility as the year progresses. Feedback is crucial to the success of the programme.
The 3 elements of the course are:
You can read the full resource and download it below.
Fully editable versions of all resources are available to schools who complete the Recruitment and Retention Audit Tool.
